May 5, 2023
Barbara F. Walter, professor of political science at the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
May 9, 2023
Assistant Professor Sonya Neal has been named by HHMI as an inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. She joins an initial cohort of outstanding early career faculty in science who have potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create diverse and inclusive lab environments.
October 2, 2023
UC San Diego Human Milk Institute names Mitra Hooshmand, PhD, as its Executive Director. Hooshman will lead strategy and operations at the innovative research institute.
November 2, 2023
Sculptor Manuelita Brown MA ‘76 is the artist behind the iconic “Triton” and “Sojourner Truth” sculptures on campus. But her relationship with San Diego goes far beyond that. Over the past 50 years, she’s been a student, faculty wife, parent of an alumnus, staff member and board member.
November 21, 2023
“Hurricane Hunter” aircraft will fly over the Pacific Ocean starting this November as part of Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program (AR Recon), led by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
December 5, 2023
A virtual event hosted by the School of Biological Sciences offered attendees from around the world a glimpse into how artificial intelligence is being used to accelerate scientific discovery and shape biomedical research, both in academia and industry.
January 25, 2024
Theater kid. Sorority sister. Avid gamer. As an undergraduate in UC San Diego’s Marshall College, Abby Sherlock ’19 was unabashedly her own distinct combination of all three.
February 13, 2024
With nonprofit organization Treasure Hacks, mathematics-computer science major Brandon Joe aims to help students develop soft skills through games.
March 5, 2024
In this Q&A with UC San Diego Today, Executive Director of Student Health and Well-Being Edward Junkins, MD, MPH, shares his vision for the future of Student Health and Well-Being in the Triton Center, a mental health app, and expanded clinical and wellness services.
March 13, 2024
To advance neuromorphic computing, some researchers are looking at analog improvements—advancing not just software, but hardware too. Research from the UC San Diego and UC Riverside shows a promising new way to store and transmit information using disordered superconducting loops.
